Woman seriously injured after car flips over onto her on Old Highway 78 near Graysville

View full sizeA woman was seriously injured in a wreck on Old Highway 78 near Graysville around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. (Photo courtesy of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office)

JEFFERSON
COUNTY, Alabama -- A woman was hospitalized after the car she was driving left
the roadway and flipped off Old U.S. Highway 78 near the Five Mile Creek bridge
near Graysville Thursday, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.

Sheriff's
deputies were called to the scene just after 3:30 p.m., sheriff's Chief Deputy
Randy Christian said.

Deputies believe the woman's car went off the edge of the
road and she over-corrected, causing the vehicle to flip and ejecting her. The
car stopped on top of her, he said.

Christian
said three men who were passing by saw the wreck and stopped to help, lifting the
car off of the woman.

The woman is
being taken to the hospital with serious injuries, Christian said.